But I Just Like Music

Last week’s Taking Back Sunday show was a first for the BIJLM team. After nearly a year of round-the-clock music bloggin’, we’ve never had a professional photographer present at a show. Well, cross that first off the list. Thanks to the talents of Mr. Michael Spear Hawkins (check out his site, give him some love, [...]

Here’s what I knew about Taking Back Sunday before their show Tuesday night at the House of Blues in Dallas. I knew they’re a pop punk band that rode the “post-hardcore” skirt tail of the early 2000s. I knew they were really popular with high schoolers in 2002 and 2003. And they sort of dropped [...]

There comes a time in every blog’s life when they are contacted by press people for bands they would never admit to liking publicly. Those press people have passes to shows that they want the bloggers to give away to their audience, who would also never admit to liking this band publicly. People, this is [...]